"I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating."

"But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies."

"Despair often breeds disease."

"Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly."

"Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?"

"Even a poor man can receive honors."

"Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near."

"Evil counsel travels fast."

"Evil gains work their punishment."

"Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness."

"For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds."

"A human being is only breath and shadow."

"A state is not a state if it belongs to one man."

"A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife."

"A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick."

"A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear."

"Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver."

"All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils."

"All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit."

"Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven."

"But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless."

"Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?"

"It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do."

"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future."

"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely."

"Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always."

"Wise thinkers prevail everywhere."

"Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all."

"The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water."

"A day lays low and lifts up again all human things."

"A fearful man is always hearing things."

"No honest man will argue on every side"

"It is God's giving if we laugh or weep"

"It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good"

"In a just cause the weak will beat the strong."

"To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it."

"Better not to exist than live basely."

"There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us."

"It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm."

"To live without evil belongs only to the gods."

"A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist."

"Always desire to learn something useful."

"The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach"

"Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them."

"If you are out of trouble, watch for danger"

"One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try"

"In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace"

"Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud."

"Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world"

"I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating"